porous
UK/ˈpɔːɹəs/US/ˈpɔɹəs/
porous adjective: full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
Adjective
porous (comparative more porous, superlative most porous)
- Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
- Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
- Concrete is porous, so water will slowly filter through it.
- Synonyms:
- permeable
- With many gaps or loopholes.
- However, Wolves ^([sic]) porous defence opened up again to gift Sunderland a foothold in the game - Sessegnon sweeping in a Zenden corner that was inexplicably allowed to bounce in the six-yard box.2011 May 14, Peter Scrivener, “Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport
- […] a porous border consequently positioned migrants from Mexico and ethnic Mexicans residing in the United States as potential terrorists.2012, Miguel Antonio Levario, Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy, page 125
porous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
porous in Hindi
- porous
- झझरी jhajhrī
porous in Tamil
- சிறுதுளைகளுள்ள, நுண்டுளையுள்ள, நுண்துளை மலிந்த, நுண்துளை, நுண் துளைகளைக் கொண்ட, புரையான
porous in Marathi
- सच्छिद्र
porous in Bengali
- porous
- ফোপরা phōpora
More languagesFewer languages
- porous in Malayalam
- സുഷിരം, സുരന്ധ്രം
- porous in Kannada
- ಸರಂಧ್ರ, ತೂತುಗಳಿರುವ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ರಂಧ್ರಗಳುಳ್ಳ, ರಂಧ್ರಗಳಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದ
- porous in Gujarati
- છિદ્રાળુ
- porous in Tagalog
- malabuga
- porous in Arabic
- مَسَامِّيّ masāmmiyy
- porous in Indonesian
- porus
- porous in Persian
- متخلخل motexalxel
Examples of porous in a sentence
- The CAM walker is made of an aerographite porous sole and aluminium, so weighs less.
- Known as 'porous portals', they will (as the name suggests) be punctuated with holes.
- Woven bone is readily distinguished macroscopically by its finely porous appearance.
Synonyms of porous
Forms of porous
| comparative | more porous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most porous |
Origin of porous
From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”). By surface analysis, pore + -ous.
Words formed from porous
Phrases with porous
Words that rhyme with porous
- chorus
- torus
- thesaurus
- chlorous
- dawn chorus
- decorous
- hypertorus
- Taurus
- -saurus
- Eye of Horus
- Horus
- keratotorus
7 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about porous
- What does porous mean?
- Porous means full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
- What is porous in Hindi?
- Porous in Hindi is झझरी (jhajhrī). See Porous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is porous?
- Porous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce porous?
- Porous is pronounced /ˈpɔːɹəs/ (UK).
Words near porous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: porous (page history and authors); झझरी (Hindi) (page history and authors); porous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porous (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ফোপরা (Bengali) (page history and authors); porous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porous (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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